The report by the special counsel on Russian interference in the 2016 election does contain evidence that Russia interfered in the election in several ways. However, much of the evidence establishing interference came in earlier indictments by Mueller and the U.S. Intelligence Community’s reports.

Margarita Simonyan

Managing editor of RT and Rossiya Segodnya

“Kindly Ecuador, which today surrendered Assange to the police, demanded that the British not extradite him to the country where he faces death penalty – i.e. the States. A few years ago Assange told me the UK will extradite him to Sweden and [from] Sweden to the U.S. Precisely where he is under the threat of the death penalty.”

Russian state media managing editor's claim is baseless: at this point, the maximum punishment for the charges brought against Assange in the U.S. is five years imprisonment. Besides, in the U.S. justice system, a person is innocent until proven guilty.

Apart from the rhetoric of a former CIA director, the U.S. Justice Department confirmed in writing that Snowden never faced capital punishment. Lavrov falsely connects the Magnitsky Act to the Snowden affair.

Rick Sanchez, RT America host

RT America host

“The demonization of Russia is the engine that drives, if nothing else, our weapons industry. Using a complicit media, the arms industry makes billions and billions of dollars simply convincing us, and other countries all over the world, that they need protection from Russia… Whether Russia really poses a threat or not doesn’t really matter. That’s the real story here, that’s the real takeaway from the Mueller report.”

Independent analyses show that the global arms trade increased steadily over 2008-2018. During the period of the Mueller investigation, the U.S. share in the global weapons transfer increased by less than one percent.

Despite attempts at assuring the Russian public that the draft law on the Digital Economy National Program is not intended to “cut off” Russia from the world, critics fear Russia’s own “Great Firewall” is in the offing.

Sputnik cried “censorship” after Facebook removed 364 Facebook pages and accounts for engaging in “coordinated inauthentic behavior.” But while Sputnik charged the pages were removed for their politically-motivated content, Facebook says it was a matter of “misrepresentations of their identities.”

WADA’s president did not say he was disappointed “at the organization’s failure.” On the contrary, he was speaking of Russia’s non-compliance with WADA demands. The organization’s inspectors did not “fail to access” Moscow laboratory data, but were denied access by Russian authorities.

Vladimir Putin

President, Russia

“All my chefs are employed by the Federal Guard Service. They are servicemen holding different ranks. I have no other chefs. For your information, we do not outsource this job, and the Federal Guard Service employees do all the work.”

Alexandr Rogers

Commentator

“Khodorkovsky's puppets [Novaya Gazeta] are fulfilling an order from the West, trying to sabotage Russia's defense industry. But that is not the same as writing fake news about ‘hundreds of dead‘ from the non-existent ‘PMC [private military company] Wagner’.”

All three claims are groundless: Novaya Gazeta has no ties to Khodorkovsky, PMC Wagner exists, and Russian PMC veterans confirmed the loss of hundreds of their comrades in an appeal to the International Criminal Court. We found connections to “troll factory.”

Russian UK Embassy Twitter Account

The claim about informants is based on interviews with some politically important Russian expats in Britain. Neither the report that is cited, nor the newspaper shown in the tweet, are making the claim that half of Russians in Britain are informants.

Federal News Agency

Russia's Internet Research Agency or the "troll factory"

“The Federal News Agency continues to publish materials about the incompetent behavior of foreign [intelligence] services. Journalists at FAN got through to one of the numbers from which it received SMS threats. From the other side the answer was in English.”

In a bid to counter U.S. efforts to stop Russians from interfering in the mid-term elections, Russia’s infamous troll farm has released yet another patently forged video that is comically bad in its execution.

Russian sources are promoting a narrative that the open source investigative reporting organization is connected to Western intelligence. Russia has not produced any evidence to connect Bellingcat to British or other intelligence agencies.